I don't think we should assume the Core is as full of inhabitable planets as the Rim. While science doesn't exactly take center stage in Star Wars, in the real world, the area around the core of a galaxy is inhospitable to life. While this obviously isn't the case in the GFFA, I would think we would at least see *fewer* habitable worlds per star there than in the Rim.

I thought about that too, maybe the SW galaxy is just an anomaly in that respect. Though at the pace we seem to be finding planets in the Milky Way you never know, maybe there could be more potentially habitable worlds closer to our galactic core than was originally thought possible.

I thought about that too, maybe the SW galaxy is just an anomaly in that respect. Though at the pace we seem to be finding planets in the Milky Way you never know, maybe there could be more potentially habitable worlds closer to our galactic core than was originally thought possible.

Milky Way has relatively few sentient species evolved here and many world have been terra-formed/katrijshon-formed/jania-formed. The most numerours species, the Katrijshoni (12% of population), are from the edge of the galactic bulge, from a world called Katrijshon. Janians live in this galaxy, too (7% of population) and settled Earth, but they're from another galaxy. If you don't belief me this:

Real science "knows" only a little bit about habitable planets, yet. Guesses of possible amounts of inhabitable worlds range from only a single one, to 50-200 million and up 'til 10 billion.

Centrifugal forces prevent stars from falling into the black hole, or it would consume the entire galaxy within time. Even if it would do this (but it doesn't), then not in a "few" million years. Rotating around the galactic center takes Sol 220 million years for one time, as an example. Milky Way is 13 billion years old and will continue to exist a lot of time longer.

Centrifugal forces prevent stars from falling into the black hole, or it would consume the entire galaxy within time.

Stuff is continually falling into Sagittarius A (Gas clouds for example and other Black Holes in the center of galaxies have been absorved consuming suns) and eventually it is predicted to indeed swallow the whole Milky Way (though yes it will take forever), along with Andromeda for that matter which is supposed to collide with the Milky Way in a few billion years.

In Star Wars #2, one of the Rebel pilots in Leia's stealth squadron, Falback Kord, is an Imperial defector from the Core World of Tinnel IV. I had to pull out my copy of the Atlas to find it, but it is in the M-12 coordinate of the Core, on the Corellian Run. Nice to see this Core World used, cause as far as the Wook is concerned the only thing of note about the world is that Moff Jerjerrod had an estate there. Given it's proximity to Corellia, I wonder if this world was originally a Corellian colony?

True, taken literally it looks like Shawken's loss of power was significant enough to be a metaphor - the mocking reference to "kings" might indicate the rulers still call themselves such despite having lost the power and influence they once had.

So relevant, in a way: the Lords of the Expanse. Some materials (e.g., the Grant segment of Who's Who) suggest that Tapani regard themselves as the highest sort of aristocrats, and that someone like Grant would regard himself as above even the rest of the grand admirals (at least one of whom was a Core World aristocrat -- Teshik -- and another was an extremely highly placed Court player, Tigellinus). Other materials (e.g., Galaxy of Intrigue) suggest that the Tapani are lesser nobility, like the Tagges or the Senex lords, and are looked down upon by the Core Worlders.

Which is it? I plan on perusing the WEG materials to see what the original take was, because I sort of feel like WEG took a middle approach that leaned more towards the former than the latter. My memory is too hazy though.

So relevant, in a way: the Lords of the Expanse. Some materials (e.g., the Grant segment of Who's Who) suggest that Tapani regard themselves as the highest sort of aristocrats, and that someone like Grant would regard himself as above even the rest of the grand admirals (at least one of whom was a Core World aristocrat -- Teshik -- and another was an extremely highly placed Court player, Tigellinus). Other materials (e.g., Galaxy of Intrigue) suggest that the Tapani are lesser nobility, like the Tagges or the Senex lords, and are looked down upon by the Core Worlders.

Could be both, they themselves consider themselves True Nobles, the ones from the actual Core World don't see it that way.

Was reading the Book of Sith today. Page 75 -- Shawken, Core Founder, is a monarchy. Hah!

It does imply that the monarchy was a thing in the past, though, at the time of the writing.

Yeah, there is no reason that Shawken can't have been a monarchy in the past and demcoractic in the modern setting, per the Marvel issue. It is also entirely possible that Shawken could be like Esseles, which once ruled an empire and had a monarchy only to over time transition into a constitutional monarchy like modern Great Britain. As far as "loss of power", Shawken does strike me as one of the Core Worlds that saw their infulence shrink in the last millenia of the Republic, as other Core Worlds became even more dominant. In that particular area of the Core, it is rather crowded with "big" worlds, so there are bound to be worlds that simply get outpaced and out played by their neighbors.

Could be both, they themselves consider themselves True Nobles, the ones from the actual Core World don't see it that way.

Yeah actually from rereading Lords of the Expanse it's the same then too. WEG says that Core Worlders regard Tapani as backwater provincials, which backs up ToG saying that they don't regard them as anywhere near their equals.

Tapani still feel superior to everybody, says ToG. So yeah it looks like its both. But it's more a case of the Tapani being insular and sheltered. So Grant's tale is even sadder; he was just a hick.

ToG also paints the Tagges as a line of criminals. Don't we have a source calling them Core Founders? Or am I just mixing them up with the Prajis?

@AdmiralNick22, what does Marvel say exactly? It could be like Mon Cola where they overthrew their traditional government when they joined the revolutionaries.

Man, re-reading Into the Core -- I didn't realize that Chandrila was a direct democracy. So not only is it a world of trouble makers, not only is it agrarian, but it's a pure democracy too? What is this, some sort of Jeffersonian hell? No wonder I detest Mothma and everything for which she stands!

Man, re-reading Into the Core -- I didn't realize that Chandrila was a direct democracy. So not only is it a world of trouble makers, not only is it agrarian, but it's a pure democracy too? What is this, some sort of Jeffersonian hell? No wonder I detest Mothma and everything for which she stands!

You didn't know?

Next you're going to tell me you didn't know they use PRC-style population control.

The inhabited areas of the planet's two continents have been kept free of urban pollution, and all citizens are educated from birth in maintaining a balanced ecosystem.

In keeping with their respect for nature, Chandrilans maintain flower gardens, fish ponds, and insect hives at their homes, and they spend much of their free time looking after them.

The Chandrilans' emphasis on political education contributes to an image of them among others as "know-it-alls." Many view them as one might view the spoiled children of a rich parent - smart, but unfamiliar with hard work and sacrifice.

The population of Chandrila is overwhelmingly Human. It has remained at around 1.2 billion for thousands of years, largely due to a government policy requiring small families.

They may have a democratic society, but it also seems carefully designed to turn out a very specific kind of Chandrilan.